For many organizations, flying to the moon is easier than migrating from Microsoft to open source-based solutions. At Pentaho Community Meeting, Bart Maertens will show that it is possible. He will present the case of energy supplier Essent Belgium who adopted a cloud-based approach with Pentaho. I talked to Bart about this exciting project. zum Artikel

Diethard Steiner is probably one of the first Pentaho users. Being active in the community and the social web he has used Pentaho for more than a decade. In his talk at Pentaho Community Meeting, he will show how to meet the challenges of working with multiple agile project teams in big organizations.

One of the biggest challenges for organizations in dealing with data is how to integrate the different data sources of an organization. webSpoon is a graphical interface for Pentaho Data Integration providing the same features as Spoon allowing for easy data extraction and integration. I have talked to Hiromu Hota, the developer of the web-based tool. zum Artikel

Mapping data on geo maps helps to visualize important KPIs. Portugal-based Kleyson de Sousa Rios will present NewMapComponent, a plugin for Pentaho Ctools for creating maps in Pentaho dashboards. I talked to him about the plugin, how he fell in love with Pentaho and what data integration has to do with his current hair style. zum Artikel